[tulip] ng_tulip driver

[GIANT Network Productions]

>On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Keith Anderson wrote:
>
> > I own a Netgear FA310TX rev D2 10/100 NIC and am currently having
> > trouble getting any linux drivers to recognize the thing. I had it
> > installed in a Red Hat (recent, not sure version) system with no
> > problems, so I know the card WILL work. However, upon removing the
> > card and trying to install it into a Debian (2.2r3 - potato) system
> > I've been unable to find ANY driver combination that will make this
> > card work - including the ng_tulip.o driver that came with the
> > distribution (modified by Netgear!).
>
>What driver versions have you tried?

ng_tulip - 0.89K.1
tulip - 0.91g-ppc
old_tulip - 0.89H

>What does 'tulip-diag -aefm' report?

#tulip-diag -aefm
tulip-diag.c:v2.08 5/15/2001 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Index #1: Found a Lite-On 82c168 PNIC adapter at 0xfc00
Lite-On 82c168 PNIC chip registers at 0xfc00:
  0x00: 00004800 01ff0000 55555555 00dce810 00dcea10 02201100 01420000 00000000
  0x40: 00000000 00006763 00dceac0 00dceac0 00000030 00000000 00000000 00000000
  Extended registers:
  80: 00000000 00000000 f0000000 f0000000 f0041385 f0041385 00000082 00000082
  a0: 6f860000 6f860000 00dce810 00dce810 02866810 02866810 0201e078 0201e078
  c0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
  e0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
  Port selection is 10mpbs-serial, half-duplex.
  Transmit stopped, Recieve stopped, half-duplex.
   The Rx process state is 'Stopped'.
   The Tx process state is 'Waiting for Tx to finish'.
   The transmit threshold is 72.
  A simplified EEPROM data table was found.
  The EEPROM does not contain transceiver control information.
   No MII transceivers found!

The troubling bit is the lack of MII transceiver - I don't know if 
this is normal (or a problem with the driver) or if my card just went 
belly-up... Again - it worked once before in the same hardware setup 
running Red Hat. Hope this helps...

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